The UK should spin to Saudi Arabia for new trade and investment opportunities after Brexit and not a backward-looking Commonwealth, Saudi ministers pronounced on a second day of a argumentative revisit to a UK by a country’s climax prince.

As a UK and Saudi Arabia set out a extended aspiration to strike scarcely $100m of blurb deals over a subsequent decade, a absolute Saudi appetite minister, Kalid A al-Falih, told a business discussion in London: “I would like to consider that Saudis can be a pivotal couple to a new partnership globe for a UK that is maybe not positioned in a past, as is a Commonwealth, though forward-looking, looking during a demographics of a Middle East, Africa, and Islamic universe to that Saudi Arabia is central.”

The UK should courtesy a dominion as a widespread force in a Gulf and “your gateway to Africa, one of a subsequent frontiers”, he said.

Al-Falih’s pitch, emphasising that both a UK and Saudi Arabia were during “inflection points”, underlines a border to that a Saudis clarity a UK will need to step adult a hunt for new trade partners after Brexit to reinstate mislaid EU markets.

Before streamer to Chequers for a private cooking with a primary minister, a 32-year-old climax prince, Mohammed bin Salman, hold a turn of meetings especially during a Saudi embassy in Mayfair. Seen as a widespread figure in Middle East politics presumably for decades to come, Bin Salman hold justice to a arch executives of vital British banks, a chancellor of a exchequer, Phillip Hammond, and a name organisation of MPs. The climax king emphasised a purpose preparation and women’s empowerment will play in Vision 2030, his devise to renovate and modernize his country. He also went to Lambeth Palace to accommodate a Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

The Archbishop of Canterbury display Mohammed bin Salman one of a beginning flourishing annals of a Koran dating from around 600AD. Photograph: Yui Mok/Reuters

Backed by a PR promotion blitz, a climax king and an environment of comparison ministers have been touting a kingdom’s integrity to modernize both economically and socially, as good as wean itself off a coherence on oil as a solitary income generator.

Protests opposite a revisit of Mohammed bin Salman in London on Thursday. Photograph: Jack Dredd/Rex/Shutterstock

Following his assembly with Bin Salman, Welby voiced his trouble about a charitable conditions in Yemen, according to a Lambeth House statement. The Saudis insist they have finished their besiege of a country’s ports, and are now contributing to a UN assist programme.

Welby also “shared his regard about boundary placed on Christian ceremony in a dominion and highlighted a significance for leaders of all faiths to support leisure of religion”, a matter said.

No sum of a assembly with Hammond were briefed though a Saudi appetite apportion reliable a sale of Saudi Aramco, a state-owned oil company, will not go forward this year. The Saudi state skeleton to steal about $31bn this year to overpass an approaching bill necessity of $52bn and account expansion skeleton after a economy shrank final year, especially due to low oil prices.

Dr Hoda al-Helaissi, a member of Saudi Arabia’s Shura Council and one of a many comparison women in Saudi open life, emphasised a heated amicable and mercantile vigour on a supervision to commence reforms. “Saudi households can no longer live absolutely on one salary, forcing women out into a work market,” she said. By 2030, she predicted, a serve 1.3 million women would join a work market, creation women 30% of a workforce.

“We are relocating divided from a genealogical multitude to a family formed around a chief family,” al-Helaissi pronounced in an residence during a Rusi thinktank. “We are traffic with a era that is really good connected to outward universe by amicable media, transport and education. It is a era that knows what it wants and where it wants to go. It is a era that is directly and indirectly putting vigour on a supervision since a expectations are high”.